0 US spelling of theatre
1 a building, room, or outside structure with rows of seats, each row usually higher than the one in front, from which people can watch a performance, a movie, or another activity:
Lincoln Plaza Cinema has five movie theaters.
2 the art or activity of writing and performing plays, or the public performance of plays:
We have tickets to the theater tonight (= to watch a performance).
The risk in a theater is that one may be targeted with tomatoes.
All of these spaces provide a context or theater in which public ritual performances appear to have been conducted.
This comment carried extra weight in an age where political rallies were held in the theater.
Funding allowed for females to organize new, creative activities, such as singing groups and theater per formances embedded in the women's own experiences.
A total of 20 narrative formats were written to resemble theater scripts.
Almost embarrassingly eager to let us know how much research he has done, he is the theater's ultimate teacher's pet, forever volunteering details.
Also, the divestiture of theaters eliminated the studios' profits from their theater chains.
Critics squirmed, but the public kept filling the theater.
